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Darling / L-Shaped Room [DVD] [1962]

DVD ~ Julie Christie

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Actors: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Directors: Bryan Forbes, John Schlesinger
Writers: Bryan Forbes, John Schlesinger, Frederic Raphael, Joseph Janni, Lynne Reid Banks
Producers: Jack Rix
Format: Black & White, PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Classification: 15
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: 23 Jun 2003
Run Time: 142 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00009B0SC
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,215 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

Darling

Audio: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 122 mins approx.
Black & White
Languages: English
Hearing Impaired: None
Subtitles: None

The L-Shaped Room

Audio: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Running Time: 110 mins approx.
Black & White
Languages: English
Hearing Impaired: None
Subtitles: None

Synopsis

Two fine examples of 1960s British cinema on one DVD.
DARLING: Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses in order to move in together. But Darling is far from done. Next she meets smooth Miles (Laurence Harvey), who knows all the right people in the film industry. But Miles is merely another stepping stone as Darling climbs in and out of bed on her way to the top, which is not quite what she expected. John Schlesinger's black-and-white film features a terrific cast and a wonderful score by John Dankworth. It captures 1960s London like few other movies, making a nice companion piece to BLOWUP. DARLING was written by Frederic Raphael, who would later go on to write EYES WIDE SHUT for Stanley Kubrick.
THE L-SHAPED ROOM: Newly arrived in London, a young, pregnant French girl (Leslie Caron) takes a room in a cheap boarding house. Befriending the curious assortment of housemates, she soon finds out that they all assume she has fled France to have an abortion. This makes her even more determined to have the child, but things become complicated when she becomes romantically involved with housemate Toby, a failed writer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great movies. Wretched DVD., 9 Aug 2003

By	Gary W. McClintock (Clive, IA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Darling is one of the great movies of the British New Wave. When John Schlesinger died a couple weeks ago, the U.S. press here dismissed the film as having become dated. But I've always thought Schlesinger's early English films have kept their appeal much more than his later American films. And maybe some of that appeal for me is that the early films do depict their period so convincingly. Certainly the orgiastic confession party in Darling provides a definition of dissipation I associate with the swinging life of that period (in tandem with the similar scene from La Dolce Vita). But the basic story of a beautiful young woman doomed by her own shallowness seems to be a story that still gets told in films. To some degree anyway. It doesn't seem to be a story locked into the 1960s. End of Review. Note on the DVD: The prints presented here are very dirty. Lots of black spots. Buckets of white spots. The L-Shaped Room is stated as being presented in 1:1.66 aspect ratio when in fact it is 1:1.33 and suffers accordingly. I get a sinking feeling that Darling will remain remembered as an also ran if a better DVD doesn't come along.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Darling, 27 Jul 2005

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I thought this film would be, from what I'd read, a female Alfie, but I was truly disappointed. I never felt that this person meant anything to me, whereas Alfie could be the cheekie chappie down the road. I could see what the film was trying to say in the permissive sixties, and that women should be as free as men to do what they like with whom they like, but the film really didn't have the energy it needed. Pity really, as Julie Christie is a fine actress.

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